On 13/11/07 03:47, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Hello, I'm new here, but now new in Linux.  I've been a RedHat/Fedora
>> user about 10 years.
>>
..
> I think for any of these dependencies you should try the rpmforge third party
> repository. Dag, Dries, or even Axel Thimms (atrpms.net) provide a range of
> RPM's for RHEL and Fedora releases.

While perhaps not as widely know as RPMForge, 
http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/el/5/SRPMS.al/
http://www.alcancelibre.org/al/el/5/RPMS.al/ seems to have 
gnumeric-1.6.3-1.9.el5.al.i386.rpm which implies they somehow got it to 
build..

In general I'd also look at CentOS repositories such as 'CentOSPlus' 
(http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/centosplus) or Karanbir Singh's 
http://centos.karan.org/ for such things. We are all one 
largely-compatible happy family after all...

The question (to me) would rather how many system packages you are 
willing to replace in order to get a particular version of gnumeric, 
given that you would need to keep an eye for updates for these packages 
yourself for all eternity - one-time availability in a repo is no 
guarantee that these will be maintained.

Best regards
jan